The 12th Annual International New West Film Festival runs from October 21 - 23, 2022 at the New Westminster Landmark Cinema. A grass roots film festival showing films from all over the world, we feature documentaries, features, shorts, and experimental films. Our first full capacity in-person festival in two years, we celebrate building community through film. Our festival includes a free film panel event, and one free screening with community discussion.

PLEASE NOTE PROGRAMMING SUBJECT TO CHANGE. $1 Membership to Attend Festival; membership included in Festival Passes.

New West Film Fest 2022 Schedule:

Friday, Oct 21, 2022

5:00 pm Paper Dreams, with Digger Dan

7:00 pm Citizen of Moria , with Black Till I Find Darker and Blanket Song

8:30 pm Opening Night Social Gathering

Saturday, Oct 22, 2022

11:00 am My Mom's Co-op, with Steven Brunell- New Paintings

12:45 pm Rematriation

2:15 pm Love In the Time of Fentanyl - followed by community panel discussion (FREE EVENT)

4:15 pm Emilienne & The Passage Of Time, with Letter to Heal A Broken Heart

5:45 pm Fragile Seeds

7:40 pm The Noise of Engines

9:15 pm After Dark Shorts & Social Gathering: I Don't Want Him Either; Reformat; 3 Pride Flags; Devoured; Guess What's Coming To Dinner; Wrought; Final Touches; Minus Twenty; The Sprayer; Dissos

Sunday, Oct 23, 2022

11:00 am Part of the Pack, with Inside the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone '88

1:00 pm FACING INJUSTICE: Awasisak, Nomato: A BC Tragedy

2:15 pm FREE FILM PANEL: The Truth, The Whole Truth, & Nothing But The Truth: Creative Equity and Authenticity

3:30 pm Afternoon Shorts and Social Gathering - Lauren In the Bathroom; Wishing Fall; Conduit; To All That We Are; F**k; Cat & Moth; Vegan Vampire; Work It Class!; Macaroni Soup; The Hot Shot

5:30 pm Handshake, with Feeling The Apocalypse

7:45 pm Trapper Radio Series, with Langar: Beyond Temple, Wherever You Are, Wherever I Am

NWFF is grateful to live, learn, work and create on the traditional and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples, including of the Qayqayt First Nation, as well well as all Coast Salish peoples. including the territories of the Katzie, Kwantlen, Kwikwetlem, Musqueam, and Qayqayt First Nations.